Aminatta Forna Quotes
What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
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I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.
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Sometimes, people only change what they look like for the acceptance of other people, and that's where you start going wrong.
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I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.
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The conversation limped along this line of thought much like a zombie: lifeless and mindless and making a jelly of whatever healthy brains were within its reach.
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We shot the video for 'Broken' where both my parents grew up. There was always a strong sense of serving our country in the neighborhood - my father and all my uncles served, and most of them enlisted.
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Documentaries - my God, there is so much going on in our country and in the world today that every time you open the newspaper or turn on the radio or watch the news on TV there is another documentary subject. We're getting the headlines for a second, shaped by corporate delivery most of the time, but what's really the story there?
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What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.
